Tennent (Personal)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern RKGKBKRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6741
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- December 2004 — Tennent (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts of Edinburgh and Mungo Jamie Tennent in loving memory of his father William Prentice Tennent. Blue for the River Avon which runs through Strathaven in South Lanarkshire. White for the heather associated with good fortune, red for the Tennent blood line and green for the fertile lands of Avondale. This tartan may not be woven or worn without the express permission of the copyright holder Jamie Tennent. - undated — Tennent from Strathaven (register-of-tartans, record)
The colours record: red for the blood of the Tennent line; Green for the fertile lands of Avondale; Blue for the water of the Avon; White for the heather associated with good fortune. The design was authorised by Mr Mungo Jamie Tennent in memory of his father, William Prentice Tennent and all the Tennents past and present.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- December 2004 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
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Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5060
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6741
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3030
Thread count
R/4 K28 G28 K28 DB28 K28 R4 W/4
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s8/r1k7g7k7db7k7r1w1~x4/